action plans

26th October
On my way to the Daily Telegraph crossword, my eye was caught by the Nature Note headed WI hopes to create buzz around bees.It is a nice little article about our SOS Honeybees campaign in Bee Aware Action Week. I hope you all ate something which the bees had helped to pollinate. I baked that honey cake which was the competition entry at the Bucks WI event at the Chiltern Open Air Museum many years ago. It is a lovely cake, absolutely fool-proof invented by one of the tutors at Denman College--the same one who is going to lead the next session of Basic Hygiene Certificates in High Wycombe early next year.Will I be sure to pass if I mention this recipe?!
28th October
Local WI committee this evening when we returned to the vexed topic of a change in venue for our meetings. All must be decided next month. Plans were made for the Barn Dance and we were also thinking some more about next year's fundraising event. Everything is in place for the Annual Meeting which promises to be a very busy evening because it will give us the chance to catch up on items and reports that had to be missed last meeting when we ran out of time.
31st October
This afternoon we were invited to a member's house for "tea and chat". The questionnaire which we circulated last year to find out what everyone would like to find on offer at the WI showed that social get-togethers of this type would be popular. The committee has responded with barbeques and soup and sandwich events and now this tea.We don't expect to make money at them but we usually do, so it helps with the annual finance sheet. Unfortunately some of the people who asked for them haven't turned up but that's their look-out! I thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to meet people beyond the monthly meeting and it is surprising how helpful it can be to sort out minor details of the up and coming programme.